Job summary
Are you a qualified ANP/ACP or currently in the final stages of an ANP/ACP training pathway looking for a new challenge?
Do you want to work in services where we are challenging the traditional flow of patients through the system and finding new ways of giving inpatient treatment on an outpatient basis? If so then this new opportunity may be for you.
We are advertising for a rotational post within Acute Medicine which will give the successful post holder ability to work as part of the Acute Take team, within our Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit and our Virtual Ward (dependent on experience).
With a key focus on expanding and improving our service we have ongoing links with the national and regional NHSE SDEC team, and our services have been the subject of various case studies and pilots for national work. We have a focus on increasing access from 999/111/Primary Care and are keen to continue to expand and deliver cutting edge and be at the forefront of this exciting and expanding speciality.
We are also one of the first trusts to offer a virtual ward within acute medicine to give further alternatives to admission and are currently aiming to expand this team further in the coming months with us managing over 1000 patients through this service in it's first 10 months.
Main duties of the job
This is primarily a clinical role in assessment, diagnosis and management of patients within the Acute Medicine but candidates will also be expected to work across the other pillars of advanced practice.
We have highly functioning Acute Medicine SDEC units on both our Frimley Park and Wexham Park sites which aim to provide rapid assessment and decision making, urgent investigations and treatment to avoid unnecessary admissions and improve the patient pathway for over 40% of the acute medical take.
We also have ACP roles within our Acute Take team (currently only Wexham Park) and our recently opened UEC Virtual Ward and so are now able to offer rotation through these three areas (dependent on experience) to give higher job variability and experience in a multitude of environments.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current unrestricted registration as a Nurse, Midwife or AHP
- MSc Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent qualification
- Teaching and assessing/mentorship qualification
- Registered Independent Prescriber (if relevant to role)
- Resuscitation/Life Support course (if appropriate to area and role)
- GCSE English and Mathematics at grade C or above (or equivalent qualifications)
Desirable
- Leadership qualification/course
- ALS/ ATLS/ ETC/ APLS/ EPALS (as relevant to role)
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post registration experience
- Experience within the speciality
- Evidence of ability to work & lead autonomously at advanced practice level
- Management of patients with complex needs
- Evidence of delivery of training
- Clinical Supervision experience
- Contribution to audit
- Ability to initiate, sustain and evaluate change within a variety of clinical situations
Desirable
- Management & Leadership experience
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Advanced Clinical Practice skills
- Clinical Examination skills
- In-depth knowledge of current practice issues
- Skills in critical analysis & application of research to practice
- Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries, to negotiate effectively and resolve complex problems
- Evidence of good written and oral communication skills including presentations
- Able to recognise and analyse complex situations and take appropriate solutions
Desirable
- Ability and initiative to develop specialist areas of interest
Special Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to shift patterns and service delivery
Desirable
- Ability to travel to different sites within and external to the Trust (dependent on role)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current unrestricted registration as a Nurse, Midwife or AHP
- MSc Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent qualification
- Teaching and assessing/mentorship qualification
- Registered Independent Prescriber (if relevant to role)
- Resuscitation/Life Support course (if appropriate to area and role)
- GCSE English and Mathematics at grade C or above (or equivalent qualifications)
Desirable
- Leadership qualification/course
- ALS/ ATLS/ ETC/ APLS/ EPALS (as relevant to role)
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post registration experience
- Experience within the speciality
- Evidence of ability to work & lead autonomously at advanced practice level
- Management of patients with complex needs
- Evidence of delivery of training
- Clinical Supervision experience
- Contribution to audit
- Ability to initiate, sustain and evaluate change within a variety of clinical situations
Desirable
- Management & Leadership experience
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Advanced Clinical Practice skills
- Clinical Examination skills
- In-depth knowledge of current practice issues
- Skills in critical analysis & application of research to practice
- Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries, to negotiate effectively and resolve complex problems
- Evidence of good written and oral communication skills including presentations
- Able to recognise and analyse complex situations and take appropriate solutions
Desirable
- Ability and initiative to develop specialist areas of interest
Special Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to shift patterns and service delivery
Desirable
- Ability to travel to different sites within and external to the Trust (dependent on role)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
